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Signs of the City.8
Here in the city of Dhaka, it’s already February 1 now, election day: mayors and city council. Herewith my last take on the omnipresent campaign signage, mixed in with the odd storefront and commercial sign, and even the ever-popular driver (biker) for delivery by the Food Panda delivery service. We think their backpacks have only recently added the logo, because suddenly we’re seeing them everywhere, whereas previously we weren’t seeing them even though we know lots of people get their meals via Food Panda. So we think someone advised Food Panda that they’d be more visible if they added their logo. And it works! See, I’m advertising for them! Ah, commerce….
Signs of the City.1
I mentioned in the last post that what I see every day here in Dhaka are signs: commercial signs most frequently, traffic information signs at times, and currently a lot of electoral-campaign signs. Yes, Dhaka city elections are happening a week from now, so we’ve had campaign rickshaw-bikes with loudspeakers, campaign tuk-tuks (or whatever the local term is here – still haven’t learned it) with loudspeakers, campaign walks with the candidate…campaign everything. Since the last post was all about Dhaka, and since one week from today this full-of-life city will hold mayoral and city-council elections (I think they’re called ward councilors here, but I haven’t researched the question deeply), I figured these two photos which give you a wee taste of the current campaign signage’s omnipresence is as good a way to start my explorations of signs in/of the city as any. Enjoy 🙂
(so much world, so little time....) 